5900 RPM Hard Drive Just Doesn't Cut It

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5900 RPM Hard Drive Just Doesn't Cut It

The Seagate Expansion External Drive is an excellent USB hard drive enclosure for digital entertainment centers. It has no power button, but sleeps after inactivity and automatically turns off when your computer is shut down. It's sleek black case really blends with other black entertainment center components.

But playing back videos on my HDTV off this external hard drive is not so slick. Periodically, the video would stop for a few seconds. I traced the problem down to the internal hard drive in the enclosure.

I have the 1.5 TB version of the Seagate Expansion External Drive. After taking the enclosure apart, I found a Seagate Barracuda LP (ST31500541AS) 1.5 TB hard drive inside. After checking the specs on Seagate's web site, I realized that it is only a 5900 RPM drive.

Luckily I have a 7200 RPM Seagate drive on hand. I swapped the faster drive into the USB enclosure and the lagging problem went away. The 5900 RPM drive is fine for backups, but for real-time play-back of video it just doesn't cut it.

Chieh Cheng
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:32 +0000

A photo of the Seagate 1.5TB Expansion Hard Drive:

One more thing... The Seagate Expansion Enclosure does has a laptop lock hole, which is not available on many hard drive enclosures on the market.

Chieh Cheng
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:04:44 +0000

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Title: Western Digital 2TB Elements External Hard Drive is Excellent for Entertainment
Weblog: NeoSciGen
Excerpt: A few weeks ago, I reported that the Seagate 1.5TB Expansion External Drive doesn't cut it for a digital entertainment center because of its low RPM, even though its sleek black enclosure is perfect. A few days ago, I found the best of both world. The Western Digital 2TB Elements External Hard Drive . . .
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